Unlike many other mammals, grey squirrels don't need to hibernate. They have plenty of strategies for staying warm. Find out ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science.

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents. A team of scientists spent 12 years in Briones Regional Park near Martinez ...

California ground squirrels have typically been considered herbivores or granivores, eating mostly plants and seeds. The new findings offer the first documentation of the species actively preying ...

They also eat large amounts of food to bulk up for the winter. Some scientists believe grey squirrels increase their ... Dreys are built from leaves and branches with softer materials like moss ...